Hang
Em High 8/10
Last
night I felt like watching something I have not seen. I started
watching the Westworld movie from the 70's and stopped because I was
bored. Same when I tried watching the series. It made me wanna watch
a real Western so I watched Hang Em High starring Clint Eastwood.
Holy shit this was good. I sound like one of those kids that just
discovered Michael Jackson or Bruce Lee. This is a tale of revenge
and you all know by now that if something is about revenge I am all
up in it. This takes place in 1889. States ain't even all states yet.
Eastwood as Jed Cooper is herding cattle when this group of guys roll
up on him. They accuse him of murder and he explains that while he
knows who they are talking about he did not steal his cattle or kill
anyone. This is the 1800's and people barely knew how to act human
let alone how justice worked so they end up hanging him and stealing
his saddle.
Surprise,
bitches! He ain't dead. Well, he was dying because he was being hung
but this guy comes along and cuts him free. He is then thrown into
the back of a wagon with a bunch of other criminals and taken to a
town that is all about hanging folks. The judge there loves the shit.
He finds out that Jed is innocent but doesn't want him to get
revenge. Pffft! He decides to make Jed a marshal and get the guys
legally mostly just to have folks to hang. Jed finds the first guy
who pulls and gun and gets shot six times before he hits the ground.
He starts finding more of the guys that hung him. Some run, some are
like “Shit”, and one feels bad because he knew Jed was innocent.
Jed bones down with a lady at a brothel but likes this lady who
checks the guys being brought for hanging hoping they are the ones
that killed her husband. One day Jed gets fucked up and she gets him
healthy again. He spends most of this movie hurt, sunburned, or shot.
Jed
starts to realize that the judge in town is a scumbag and just wants
to hang people and make Oklahoma a real state because it isn't yet.
Jed wants to leave and do whatever the hell men did back then which
seems to be what he is doing now but being paid less. Jed ends up
ready to quit when he gets the warrants for two more of the men that
hung him and gets his badge back. I liked this movie because during
some fights scenes there was no music and it made it feel better even
though when guys were punched they flailed and it made me laugh. I
plan on watching some more of these movies and I blame watching too
much Red Dead Redemption 2 videos for this.
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